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They hate us because we are a free country. Women have rights, minorities have rights, gays have rights. A lot of people around the world don't like that. Some people are just evil and enjoy destroying good things. We had to fight for our freedom and believe it or not we are still fighting various groups around the world who want to take our freedom away. Also we help others around the world who are fighting for their freedom.
Many Afghans Shrug at 'This Event Foreigners Call 9/11'
According to a survey of 15- to 30-year-old men in the two southern provinces where President Barack Obama sent the bulk of American surge troops, 92% of respondents said they didn't know about "this event which the foreigners call 9/11"after being read a three-paragraph description of the attacks.
"Nobody explained to them the 9/11 story—and it's hard to win the hearts and minds of the fighting-age males in Helmand if they don't even know why the foreigners are here," says Norine MacDonald, president of the International Council on Security and Development, the think tank that carried out the survey of 1,000 Afghan men in eight districts of Kandahar and Helmand. "There is a vacuum—and it's being filled by al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda claiming that we are here to destroy Islam."
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